MH-271 Zoon van snooK - (Falling From) The Nutty Tree(Falling from) The Nutty Tree, the debut long player from enigmatic Bristolian Zoon van snooK, playfully treads a fine line between the ostensibly gleeful and affably sinister echelons of the Oddtronica spectrum. Chopped, clipped and pulverised beats, tacit vocal samples, found sound and curious field recordings provide the rhythmical backdrop to an accompanying plethora of plucked, chimed and slapped instrumophones. Jazz-flecked piano chords, bucolic melodies of layered ukuleles and accordions, combined with the throb of glitched-out synth lines create an infectious journey through Zoon’s left-of-centre electrickery. With nods to the likes of Four Tet, Boards of Canada and Múm, (Falling from) The Nutty Tree is a warm, humorous and hook-laden sonic collage of Kitchen-sink eccentronica.

Tracklist

01. Shall He? Shanty

02. Cuckoo

03. Lomograph

04. The Cross I'd Bear

05. The Two Knives (Cuckoo's Reprise)

06. Half Term (8:08)

07. Sculptress

08. Ee'm Yorn

09. Pearl St Mess

10. Plainsong

11. Le Fin

Release Details

Release Date: 12/07/2010

Running Time: 44:42

Download/Available/$7.00

CD/Available/$10.00

LOSSLESS/Available/$10.00

Territory: World

Reviews Summary

Journey through the experimental sounds of a mad scientist and lose yourself within layers of acoustic and glitched out electronic synths thrown into a roaring explosion of beats and vocal compositions. Alec takes audible cues from influences such as Four Tet, Boards of Canada and Múm and the end result is a sonic collage of epic proportions. - Deftune

It’s been a while since we featured the debut EP the ‘Snook operator’ cooked up for Cookshop, and now he’s back with a full-length, finally (has it been two years?), dropping on Mush records for a change. And a marvellous mush it is; Oddtronic soundscapes, pastoral layers haunted and beautifully spoilt by quirky samples; epic, choppy and plucked worlds where sounds collide at their most promiscuous. When we last spoke, he described the still-unfinished LP like this: “You can expect layered melodies upon a series of homemade clicks and whistles, punctuated with tacit glimpses of someone else’s life”.Dead-on, yet you never quite know which parts’s supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, or when Alec (that’s Mr. Snook) is unsmiling, but that ambiguity actually makes it even greater in all its nutty wickedness. - Lodown Magazine